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Latika Takes interviews Arsen Ostrovsky

The 'Bondi Bandage Man' discusses being shot at Bondi and why he wants a Royal Commission into Australia's worst terrorist attack

This week Latika Takes: The Podcast interviews ARSEN OSTROVSKY who was shot during the Bondi terror attack at Bondi Beach on December 14.

An international human rights lawyer, Ostrovsky relocated back to Australia just 2.5 weeks before the attack, to take up a position as Head of Sydney Office of the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council, a leading Jewish communal advocacy organisation.

In this interview, Arsen Ostrovsky discusses being shot in the Hannukah attack and the ten minutes between being hit and finding out this his wife and two young girls were safe.

He took this photo to see his injuries and sent it to his wife not knowing if this would be his last message to her.

Mr Ostrovsky is now among the many campaigners pushing for a federal Royal Commission into antisemitism, something the Labor Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is resisting.

He also discusses the fake images of him that went viral after the attack, which used AI to generate images of him depicting him having fake blood applied by make-up artists.

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